Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

WHAT Troubleshooting a SharePoint site for a customer today.  Users with even up to Full Control on a library (nevermind simple contribute access) couldn’t upload documents to a document library. The system page would give an “Access Denied” response when choosing “Add Document”.  While Publishing was on and was my first suspicion, the user had …

Here’s an old trick I’ve used hundreds of times for helping users out on my SharePoint Pages, Web Parts and Dashboards using the “Title Icon” functionality to create a “tool tip” or “Help/Overview” like effect. Thought I’d show it in video this time.

What First off a disclaimer. In a production SharePoint environment, of course you shouldn’t perform an IISRESET/system reset when users are connected. Buuuuutttttt, in those instances where you are in a jam, or the system is in testing or you’re feeling brazen, I’m just saying you “coullldddd” consider the following… I was working with a …

Hey folks We’ve come across a SharePoint security concern that, if you are not already aware of, requires your attention. To be clear – we’re not fans of fear mongering. SharePoint patches pop up frequently.  We’ve identified this one as particularly critical. We are currently applying this patch internally to protect ourselves and to develop …

The following post has been updated to reflect SharePoint 2013. Internally, we are using SharePoint blogs very effectively, to replace common sharing of information (in our case, typically about technology like ‘how I fixed this or that’. Using Microsoft Word as our blogging tool (and if you don’t have Microsoft Word (2007 through 2013), you …

What Microsoft has done a really nice job of slimming down and simplifying what a SharePoint Personal Site looks and behaves like for end users (you know, those “My Sites” that historically/rarely got adopted). By the way, this applies to both SharePoint 2013 on premise and Office 365 (SharePoint Online).

A customer had two questions this morning regarding Search in SharePoint (and the following hasn’t really changed in 2013). As I already had the answers for her, figured I’d share them with others as well. How do I see how long a full search crawl takes? 1.     In your Search Service Application (Central Admin, Manage Service …

This has been something I have been meaning to point out for a little while and it came up in conversation today which prompted me to take the 10 minutes to share it. There are some limitations to emerging Cloud technologies, some which may never get addressed. In this case, I’m not sure if auditing …